[polotics]

could you provide an example of a website that shows this behaviour?

[erikig]

The YouTube video page comes to mind e.g https://youtu.be/8aIyHl5qP9I It would me great if the user had the option to press play to start the video.

[tim333]

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Disable%20HTML5%20A... worked

[bitpush]

wut? You go to a YouTube video url to watch the video.

[k1t]

If I say "no auto-playing videos" then I mean No Auto-Playing Videos.

I don't expect you or my browser to start second guessing that with "oh, but probably it's OK on this site...?"

I do recall a Firefox discussion about how they can't 100% block videoes because there will always be another way - eg do animated gifs count, or javascript that shows a rapid sequence of images - but just because it can't be perfect doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[technothrasher]

Yep, and I'm ready to watch said video as soon as I press the play button.

I haven't really used chrome much in years, as Firefox is my main browser. But even with Firefox, stopping autoplay seems to be an ongoing cat and mouse game.

[red_trumpet]

It would be nice to read the title and look at the thumbnail to get an impression before blasting "never gonna give you up" through my speakers.

[rpigab]

I only read the comments usually, if the comments are good, maybe I'll watch the video.

[a012]

It’s on the frontpage now as well: https://design.google/library/youtube-new-red-color